# Fractures at Barnes Construction Company
> OSHA SIR `20211211148` · 12/29/2021 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
## Employer
- **Name:** Barnes Construction Company
- **Location:** 600 Park Avenue, DENVER, COLORADO, 80205
- **NAICS:** 238140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on the base of a mobile scaffold. His left arm was wrapped through the ladder's vertical retracting supports, which he was hitting with a hammer in an attempt to free the ladder. The ladder abruptly retracted downward and broke his arm.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*